Yates v. State

Bobert Tates was indicted with Bansom Jones for burglary and larceny, and was tried and convicted and sentenced by the circuit court of Jefferson Davis county to serve seven years in the state penitentiary, from which Tates appeals to this court.

The proof of the state showed that a cotton house owned by Carl Bridges, in which was stored about one thousand two hundred pounds of cotton seed, was burglarized in December, 1934, and the seed was carried away and sold to a dealer at Magee, Miss. The value of the alleged stolen seed was placed at thirty dollars. It is shown by state witnesses that…